Sunday, 11 December 2016

Background

Chromebook now supports Android Apps to be run. At Google I/O 2016, it was announced that Android apps would be available to run on supported Chromebooks via the Google Play Store, which will result in having two app stores in Chrome OS. ARC's native code approach was abandoned, instead using unmodified copy of Android's framework running in a container. Android apps run in floating windows now. You can also see google playstore in your chrome once you enable it in settings -

In this post we will see how we can run ADB and side load android apps.

Debug Android Apps on chromebook using ADB

First make sure you your chromebook is in developer mode and and you have also enabled developer options in android settings. All of this was already shown in my last post -